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1. The Void You Left Behind by lonely_ampersand

   Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   30 Dec 2024

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Colin Bridgerton
   • Penelope Featherington
   • Eloise Bridgerton
   • Benedict Bridgerton
   • Anthony Bridgerton
   • Kate Sharma
   • Daphne Bridgerton
   • Simon Basset
   • Violet Bridgerton
   • Hyacinth Bridgerton
   • Gregory Bridgerton
   • Francesca Bridgerton
   • Portia Featherington
   • Minor Characters
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Flashbacks
   • Emails
   • (the flashbacks are in the emails)
   • Angst
   • Fluff
   • Eventual Smut
   • The rating will change
   • Pining
   • Mutual Pining
   • like so much pining
   • Falling In Love
   • (except they're already in love)
   • Childhood Friends
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Friends With Benefits
   • Jealous Colin Bridgerton
   • COVID-19 Pandemic
   • nobody is really affected by it
   • except a brief mention and the characters are okay
   • but the virus is there and it affects people's timelines and plans
   • Writer Penelope Featherington
   • Photographer Colin Bridgerton
   • Writer Colin Bridgerton
   • Famous Penelope Featherington
   • She lives in New York
   • Introspection
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • HEA
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Minor Character Death
   • chaotic Colin Bridgerton has entered the chat
   • Colin Bridgerton is Down Bad
   • Discord: The Romantic Wallflowers (Bridgerton)

   Summary

   "It’s been so long that I don’t even know how to start… It would be different if I could talk to her face to face, but I can’t just catch a plane and knock on her door. Besides, she must be different now, you’ve seen how confident and gorgeous she looked. She’s famous, she has a boyfriend… I’m just the guy who betrayed her trust.”

   OR

   Five years after Colin and Penelope had a falling out, she's back in London for work. Their lives have changed drastically during that time, but Colin is determined to get her back as the dear friend she once was or, ideally, -now that he's finally realised the extent of his feelings for her- something more.

   So much more.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   89,246

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

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